"They leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him." If revealing your official tax returns -- something every single president and VP for forty years before Trump did voluntarily -- could possibly "destroy" you, that is the scandal.

Just a reminder to everyone: The idea that the Biden admin was engaged in "weaponization" of government was a myth dreamed up by Russ Vought. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-weaponiz...

Omg and also universities!! So many loyal losers!

Agree. Poetry’s Data (50% off at PUP) is, at its most basic, an elaboration of his argument & the perils of not heeding it.

I was just talking about this. AI in a robust social safety net is very different than AI in a scam economy without one.

Again, that this stuff doesn’t immediately end his presidency is a total failure of Article I of the Constitution. A complete collapse of the polity.

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Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

This is exactly the way. Find some awful Jan6 story from your state, your CD, and start talking relentlessly about it, asking people if they want to pay that criminal.

Thomas Massie lost tonight because he wanted the Epstein List released and pedophiles held accountable. Trump didn't want any of that, so he had to go.

A super interesting opportunity at the Whitney Humanities Center. The deputy director there, @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social, is awesome and you know I <3 New Haven. Please repost and spread the word!!

this is a masterpiece

If you're a Democrat and you confirm someone who refuses to unequivocally say "Joe Biden won the 2020 election," you should lose your job.

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

turns out it was a bit of a whoopsie to focus on low level j6 rioters rather than throwing the ring leaders in jail immediately and tossing the keys. oh well, better luck next time!

Awesome! The first issue of "Digital Humanities Intersections" has been published! https://dhi.iiti.ac.in/index.php/dhjournal/index DHI is a new "open-access, peer-reviewed journal committed to advancing multilingual and interdisciplinary research in Digital Humanities." Check it out!

This is THEFT. There is no other word for it. They are stealing almost $1.8 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

So many universities including my own employer are doing this at graduation ceremonies rather than have an actual human read names, which is like the laziest, most disrespectful thing a college can do to a graduating student.

"Re-focusing on data also means rethinking what counts as meaningful work. Preparing data isn’t just a technical step; it carries so many interpretive choices. It’s where all our beloved hermeneutics live." Such a good rant...er...post by @sarahalang.bsky.social. Well worth your time to read.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Recently published: article on the research that went into the 2.0 version of the Shakespeare and Company Project datasets, and the potential of the updates and additional data on member addresses and authors. doi.org/10.22148/jca... One of the first few in the newly launched JCA!

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Shannon measured the information rate of English at ~1 bit per character. According to a byte-level LLM measuring next-character predictability in LLM & human text (diaries, abstracts, dreams, fiction), aligned models produce sub-English information rates & LLM text is more predictable than humans'.

the thing about tenure line professors forming Pennsylvania’s largest public sector union in 50 years is unions are for everybody!! profs are public servants! and we're doing all the big publics! we're doing Urbana we're doing Michigan we're doing California! www.statecollege.com/articles/psu...

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Peer review is a poor mechanism for the deep forensic work needed to detect fraud of any sort. Peer review is broken, but where it works best is as an expert gut check on method, argument, and other matters of sensibility and soundness—assuming good faith on the part of the submitting authors.

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

In his bid to get the charges against him dismissed bc Bill Essayli, while he was acting unlawfully as USA, persisted w/case after it became clear first affidavit was full of lies, Adrian Martinez cites Aileen Cannon dismissing the charges against Trump. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

I cannot stress enough how much anyone who complains about the government spending money to give new parents free diapers should never know one single moment of peace

COLLINS: But if someone was paying $2.98 a gallon before the war, and now they're paying $4.53, saying 'that's life' might not make them feel better JIM JORDAN: Those are your words, not mine COLLINS: You said that just now. I quoted you.

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket. The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

This means every American will have to pay $5 tax to pay Trump's terrorists, ON TOP OF the money those terrorists ultimately did not pay to fix the damage they did to the Capitol.

How many hundreds of thousands of Africans does a man have to kill by yanking foreign aid to get called racist around here?

The President is telling the IRS to give him $10 billion rn

When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?!

Rawbraining it

"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion